Today, CloudFlare suffered downtime which caused customersÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ sites to be inaccessible in certain parts of the world. We take the availability of our customersÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ web properties very seriously. Incidents like this get the absolute highest priority, attention, and follow up. The pain felt by our customers is also felt deeply by the CloudFlare team in London and San Francisco.

This downtime was the result of a BGP route leak by Internexa, an ISP in Latin America. Internexa accidentally directed large amounts of traffic destined for CloudFlare data centers around the world to a single data center in MedellÃƒÂ­n, Colombia. At the same time Internexa also leaked routes belonging to Telecom Argentina causing disruption in Argentina. This was the result of Internexa announcing via BGP that their network, instead of ours, handled traffic for CloudFlare. This miscommunication caused a flood of traffic to quickly overwhelm the data center in MedellÃƒÂ­n. The incident lasted 49 minutes, from 15:08UTC to 15:57UTC.

The exact impact of the route leak to our customersÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ visitors depended on the geography of the Internet. Traffic to CloudFlareÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s customers sites dropped by 50% in North America and 12% in Europe. The impact on our network in Asia was isolated to China. Traffic from South America was also affected as data centers there had to cope with an influx of traffic normally handled elsewhere.

In the past, weÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve written about the inherent fragility of the InternetÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s core routing system, and the problem of Ã¢â‚¬Å“route leakageÃ¢â‚¬Â. Throughout 2014, weÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve seen numerous high profile leaks. In April an Indonesian ISP leaked routes for large swathes of the Internet for a two hour period. Then in September portions of the Internet went offline because of a route leak when a hosting company leaked 400,000 routes, and back in March GoogleÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s DNS was inaccessible in parts of the world because of a route leak. Route leakage is a hard problem that impacts every Internet service provider with no obvious or quick solution.

TodayÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s incident was unrelated to our recent announcement of Universal SSL, and was not the result of an attack. We worked directly with Internexa to resolve the route leak, and all CloudFlare systems are now operating normally. For the time being, we have quarantined the MedellÃƒÂ­n data center and disabled connectivity with Internexa. CloudFlare still has plenty of capacity to continue operating our network without that data center while we work with Internexa to understand the exact cause of their route leak. We are beginning an internal post-mortem to ensure that our internal protocols were followed and to identify areas for improvement.

Finally, we plan to proactively issue service credits to accounts covered by SLAs. Any amount of downtime is completely unacceptable to us. The entire CloudFlare team remains focused on delivering the best service to customers worldwide.

]]>http://raisewebsite.com/route-leak-incident-on-october-2-2014/feed/0How to boost your traffic with Ã¢â‚¬Å“Related PostsÃ¢â‚¬Âhttp://raisewebsite.com/how-to-boost-your-traffic-with-related-posts/
http://raisewebsite.com/how-to-boost-your-traffic-with-related-posts/#respondFri, 12 Sep 2014 15:10:46 +0000http://full2design.com/?p=5378JetpackÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Related Posts feature scans all of the posts on your site (or blog), analyzes them, and shows your visitors other posts with related content that they might be interested in reading once theyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re done reading the one that brought them to your site.

Most sites who activate this see an increase in traffic. On this site, Jetpack.me, when we compare pages with and without the feature enabled we see around 79% more visitors clicking through to one other post on the site.

This data is based on a 6-month traffic comparison between blog posts showing related posts and pages with the feature disabled. Turning on the feature for us in essence means that almost twice as many visitors read something else besides the original post that brought them here.

How does it work?

The related content is automatically generated based on the content of the post and any tags or categories if they exist. Unlike many other related post plugins, we do all the analysis, processing, and serving from our cloud, so there is no additional load on your server. (ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s why many plugins like YARPP or Similar Posts are often banned by web hosts, but Jetpack Related Posts are allowed.)

This is not unlike other Jetpack features like Photon and Stats that rely on our cloud infrastructure for the heavy lifting.

Once its enabled (and if you have more than 10 posts in total on your site) the related posts will show up in a Ã¢â‚¬Å“Related PostsÃ¢â‚¬Â section just below your main post content, very much like what you can see at the bottom of this post

How to enable it

Once this is done, go to the Jetpack page in your blogÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s dashboard and click the Activate button for Related Posts. You can also customize how the related posts section looks by going to your Settings Ã¢â€ â€ Reading page and scrolling down to the options next to Ã¢â‚¬Å“Related posts.Ã¢â‚¬Â

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http://raisewebsite.com/search-engine-optimization-tips-for-wordpress-sites/#respondSat, 23 Aug 2014 09:33:11 +0000http://full2design.com/?p=5334WordPress & SEO
Since being released on May of 2003, WordPress has quickly climbed up the internet ladder to now power about one quarter of all new websites. Since its inception in 2003, WordPress has grown from being known as a Ã¢â‚¬Å“bloggingÃ¢â‚¬Â platform to being a powerful content management system (CMS).According to Wikipedia:WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 powers 22% of all new websites.WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.
In this Search Engine Optimization Tips document, you will be given a summary of the detailed principles of the processes of Search Engine Optimization. In particular, we will focus on how you, as a business and service provider, using the popular WordPress platform can do very well to rank on the SERPs using some SEO guidelines and principles.

Download Complete guide to WordPress SEO

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http://raisewebsite.com/benefits-of-hiring-a-web-design-company/#respondThu, 17 Jul 2014 06:17:36 +0000http://full2design.com/?p=5232Are you looking at starting an e-business? A sound website is the primary requirement to begin your business online. Over the internet, your site is the only interface between you and your customer. The visibility and quality of the website determines the traffic generated and the improvement in sales. Your website is the face of your e-business. It is essential to put forward your best feet in this space. Hiring professional web design companies brings you experience and expertise in this field. This article discusses about four benefits of getting your website done by these professionals.

Expertise in Web Designing

These firms are a group of web developers who are knowledgeable and experienced in making efficient and professional websites. They are experts and are updated about the latest tools used for designing a sound site. All you need to do is, discuss all your requirements and specifications with them. They make note of details like the type of business you are involved in, target audience etc. Depending on your requirements they put forward a design to you which you are free to alter. These professionals are able enough to advise you in these areas to help you create the best website.

Quality Web Design

Another key feature of their product is quality of the website. They use the latest tools to make an effective site which loads fast and provides a friendly user interface. You have the option of customizing these pages depending on your requirements. You can decide on going for a light design with basic features or a heavy page with intricate functionalities depending on the bandwidth you have on your hosting server. Most of these designing firms provide you free domain and hosting. In that case you can decide the specifications that will work best on the configuration offered. Each page is designed to the minutest detail. This goes a long in improving the speed and quality of the website.

Search Engine Optimization

Relevant and error free content is the key to impress your clients at the first glance. Web design companies are experienced in developing content which are appropriate and written in good grammar and fluency. SEO is important to feature on the top of search engine results. This enables in generating traffic which leads to better sales. Writing articles, blogs, social media advertising are some of the strategies used in this field. Hiring a web development firm helps you concentrate on your business as they help your sales reach new heights.

Technical Support

Maintenance of your website is necessary to keep it up and running every day round the year. Any failure in your website can hit your traffic. This makes it important to hire web designing companies who provide round the clock technical support via phone and email whenever required. This saves you a lot of time and effort. They also offer services to keep you updated about the progress in the performance of the website. Most of all they are always there to provide timely advise if you are in doubt anytime.

]]>http://raisewebsite.com/benefits-of-hiring-a-web-design-company/feed/0Free WordPress Magazine Themehttp://raisewebsite.com/free-wordpress-magazine-theme/
http://raisewebsite.com/free-wordpress-magazine-theme/#respondFri, 16 May 2014 14:39:28 +0000http://full2design.com/?p=5195We have been working tirelessly for almost a month on this theme but today we are so excited to presentÃ‚Â our newest FREEMagazine WordPress Theme: Delivery LiteÃ‚Â to you. Delivery Lite is a minimalist, beautiful, modern and mobile-friendly a.k.a responsive magazine theme. It greatÃ‚Â for online magazines websites, news websites or personal blogs, because theÃ‚Â minimalism it will give content-focused effect to your reader.

Built-in BreadcrumbsÃ‚Â – Breadcrumbs is important especially for SEO, Delivery Lite handles it for you without installing any 3rd party plugin. ItÃ‚Â will beautify your permalink structure on Google search result.

Support 4 Widget Areas Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Delivery Lite has 4 widget areas to give you more flexibility to customize your site.

Fully Internationalized -Ã‚Â We provide the .po and .mo files, so you can easily to translate the theme to your language. If you want to submit your translation to us, please send it to Github Issue page.

There is talk going on about the security vulnerability called “Heartbleed” which affects servers which run SSL (secure connections) such as the members area here at Wealthy Affiliate.

I wanted to quickly chime in to let you know that you’re safe here at WA.

A secure connection means that all information that you pass from your browser, to the server is encrypted. Heartbleed affected an SSL protocol called OpenSSL which upwards of 66% of the web uses.

To summarize, there was a bug exposed in the OpenSSL protocol which allowed the Heartbleed bug to intercept encrypted data.

There’s nothing at WA for heartbleed to expose.

We do not store any sensitive information here at WA such as Credit Card info, or bank info, so there’s nothing to expose. We do not store this information for this exact reason, to keep your sensitive data safe.

To verify for yourself that we are not affected by heartbleed here at WA, you can verify by doing a check on our domain “my.wealthyaffiliate.com”

Heartbleed affects servers and companies running secure services. For everyone here at WA, this does not affect your websites at all because you do not have SSL certificates, nor do you ever need to.

PS: For anyone interested you can read more about heartbleed here, it’s INCREDIBLY technical, and unless you’re someone running a server that uses openSSL, you do not need to concern yourself. Your financial institutions etc will most certainly be patching their services if they were vulnerable in the first place.

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http://raisewebsite.com/whmcs-security-advisory-tsr-2014-0002/#respondTue, 25 Mar 2014 15:22:20 +0000http://full2design.com/?p=5126WHMCS has released new updates for all supported versions of WHMCS. These updates include changes that address security concerns within the WHMCS product.

These patch sets contain only the files that have changed between the previous release and this update. The previous release version that these patch sets are designed for is clearly indicated as the first and smaller number.

The security changes in these releases address 11 privately reported issues through our security bounty program, and 1 issue discovered internally by the WHMCS Development Team. The issues addressed are rated as having Moderate to Trivial security impact.

Once sufficient time has passed to allow WHMCS customers to update their installed software, WHMCS will release additional information regarding the nature of the security issues.

Maintenance Issue Information

This release also provides resolution for a number of maintenance issues. For full details please refer to the change logs for each respective version:

All published and supported versions of WHMCS prior to 5.3.6 are affected by one or more of these maintenance and security issues.

]]>http://raisewebsite.com/whmcs-security-advisory-tsr-2014-0002/feed/0Androis VS iPhone. SHOCKING truth!http://raisewebsite.com/androis-vs-iphone-shocking-truth/
http://raisewebsite.com/androis-vs-iphone-shocking-truth/#respondTue, 25 Mar 2014 08:45:37 +0000http://full2design.com/?p=5122Android is dominating the smartphone market in a big way, grabbing a record 92% of global shipments, according to new research.

Android took the top spot with 70%, or 152 million units, followed by Apple, which shipped 22% (48 million units), according to a report released by research firm Strategy Analytics. Other smartphone makers captured the remaining 8% (17 million units).

“Android’s share of the global smartphone market has surged from 51% to 70% over the past year, crushing Symbian, Bada and other platforms in its wake,” Neil Mawston, the firm’s executive director, said in a statement. “Android is clearly the undisputed volume leader of the smartphone industry at the present time.